September 27, 1722 - October 2, 1803 Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts Education: Master of Arts, Harvard. (Politician) 1765 Tax-collector; Elected to Massachusetts Assembly; 1774 Massachusetts Delegate to the First Continental Congress; 1776 Signed Declaration of Independence; 1781 Member of Massachusetts State constitutional convention; 1789 Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; 1794-'97 Elected Governor of Massachusetts. |
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Patrick Henry: May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799. Birthplace: Hanover County, Virginia. Education: (Lawyer, Politician). 1765 Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses; 1769 Admitted to the Bar of the General Court in Virginia; 1774 Elected to the Continental Congress; 1775 Virginia Militia Leader; 1776-1778, 1784 Governor of Virginia. |
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George Mason: December 11, 1725 - October 7, 1792. Birthplace: Fairfax County, Virginia. Education: Self - Family Library. 1776 Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights. 1786 Representative of Virginia as a delegate in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. 1788 Delegate in the Constitutional Convention - considered the "Father of the Bill of Rights" from his adamant insistence of their inclusion. 1791 Bill of Rights ratified, based primarily on George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights. |
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March 16, 1751- June 28, 1836 Birthplace: Port Conway, Virginia. Education, 1769-1771 College of New Jersey (later to become Princeton University). 1771-1772 Extended study (theology) with College President, John Witherspoon. 1776-79 Virginia state legislature. 1780-83 delegate to the Continental Congress.1787 One of 3 authors to the Federalist Papers. (Later opposed federalists). 1787 Delegate, Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 18091817 Fourth President of the United States. |
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Edmund Pendleton September 9, 1721 - October 23, 1803. Birthplace: Caroline County, Virginia. Education: Informal. 1741 Practiced Law (Lawyer), Licensed; 1745 General court; 1751 Appointed Justice of Caroline County; 1752-1776 Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; 1774-75 Represented Virginia at the Continental Congress; 1775 President of the Virginia Committee of Safety; 1775-76 President of Virginia Conventions; 1776 first Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, appointed reviser of the statute laws of Virginia; 1777 First Judge of the High Court of Chancery; 1778-1803 President of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; 1788 President of the Virginia Ratification Convention; 1788 Mr. Pendleton refused an appointment to the Federal judiciary. |
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John Marshall, September 24, 1755 - June 6, 1835; Birthplace: Germantown (now Midland) in what became Fauquier County, Virginia. Served first as lieutenant, then in 1778 as captain in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. 1777-1778 spent the winter of with the troops in Valley Forge. 1781 Resigned his military commission and studied law practicing in Fauquier County and later in Richmond. From this time, he maintained leadership of the bar of Virginia. 1782-91 and 1795-1797 member of the Virginia assembly . 1788 Leading part in the Virginia convention called to act on the proposed Constitution of the United States. 1795 offered the attorney-generalship and the position of the Minister to France in 1796; Declining both offers made by Washington . 1797-98 France as one of the three commissioners appointed by John Adams to adjust the differences between the young republic and the directory. 1799 Patrick Henry aided Marshall's election as a Federalist to the House of Representatives. 1800 - 1801 Secretary of State under Adams. January 31, 1801 appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. While Secretary he presided as Chief Justice........... |
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John Adams: October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826. Birthplace: Braintree, MA. Education: (at age 16) 1751-1755 Harvard College. 1756-1759 Taught school at Worchester. 1765 Opponent of the Stamp Act. 1765 Wrote the "Braintree Instructions". 1768 Wrote "True Sentiments of America". 1774 and from 1775 to 1778 First and second Continental Congress. 1776 wrote "Thoughts on Government". 2nd President President of the United States March 4, 1797 March 4, 1801. |
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Thomas Jefferson: 13 April 1743 - July 4, 1826. Birthplace: Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia. Education: From James Maury 1758 to 1760 in Fredericksville Parish; 1760-1762 William and Mary College (Lawyer); 1767 Virginia bar; 1769 Virginia House of Burgesses; 1775-76 Delegate Continental Congress; 1776-79 Virginia House of Delegates; 1779, 1780 Governor of Virginia; 1782 England to treat for peace Gr. Britain; 1784 Associate Envoy to France; 1785 Minister to the French Court; 1789 Secretary of State; 1793 Established Democratic-Republican party; 1796 Vice President of the United States; Third President of the United States, 1801; |
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